The Woman in American HistoryAddison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1971 - 207 pages |
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... colonial life as community builders and in the creation and maintenance of such institutions as churches , schools , benevolent societies , and charitable organizations . A few talented ... Colonial Woman Women in colonial America enjoyed 10.
... colonial life as community builders and in the creation and maintenance of such institutions as churches , schools , benevolent societies , and charitable organizations . A few talented ... Colonial Woman Women in colonial America enjoyed 10.
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Gerda Lerner. CHAPTER ONE The Colonial Woman Women in colonial America enjoyed greater freedom than did women in contemporary Europe , yet their ability to determine their own lives was limited then , as it is now , by the ideas society ...
Gerda Lerner. CHAPTER ONE The Colonial Woman Women in colonial America enjoyed greater freedom than did women in contemporary Europe , yet their ability to determine their own lives was limited then , as it is now , by the ideas society ...
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... Colonial authorities protected a wife's rights in her husband's property , allowing her a share and her personal clothing in case of a legal separation . Colonial courts also gave women the right to make - contracts , transact business ...
... Colonial authorities protected a wife's rights in her husband's property , allowing her a share and her personal clothing in case of a legal separation . Colonial courts also gave women the right to make - contracts , transact business ...
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abolitionist American women Angelina Grimké Anne Hutchinson Anthony antislavery became birth control black women Boston campaign career Carrie Chapman Catt cause Charlotte Perkins Charlotte Perkins Gilman child church cities Civil College colonial America colonial women contribution cultural death decades developed Dorothea Dix economic Elizabeth Cady Stanton Emma equal factory federal amendment female suffrage feminist field Frances Frances Wright freedom frontier Gilman girls Grimké Grimké sisters Harriet husband industry Jane Addams labor ladies later leaders leadership legislation literary lives Lucretia Mott male Margaret Sanger marriage married Mary Baker Eddy Massachusetts ment mother National NAWSA nineteenth century nurses NWTUL organized percent pioneer plantation political President reform role Sarah Sarah Grimké sisters slave slavery social society soldiers South southern status struggle suffragists Susan teachers tion United vote wages Willard wives woman suffrage woman's rights movement workers York
References to this book
Theories of Women's Studies Gloria Bowles,Renate Duelli-Klein,Renate Klein No preview available - 1983 |